International Organisations

The government of Sudan announced yesterday that the value of World Bank-funded projects in the country has reached $150 million, of which $76 million is in support of basic...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has confirmed that the government will increase the monthly capacity of ration cards which it uses for its food subsidies distribution from $1.16 per...

Amnesty International Algeria has condemned the "hateful" and "racist" campaign against sub-Saharan nationals and refugees that has circulated on social media this week following International World Refugee Day on...

Syrian refugees left on the Algeria-Morocco border have been allowed into Morocco

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has started a new scheme to distribute zakat funds for its relief work after obtaining a fatwa (religious ruling) from senior Muslim clerics. In...

The UK government's Department for Communities and Local Government acted unlawfully when it curtailed divestment campaigns against Israeli and international firms implicated in Israel's violations of international law, a...

Hamas yesterday condemned the US' request to the UN Security Council that it be added to the council's official list of "terrorist groups", the Anadolu Agency reported. "Hamas rejects...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it had disbursed $71 million to Jordan after its Executive Board completed its first review of the country's economy. In a statement issued...

American Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on Tuesday asked the UN Security Council to blacklist Hamas, accusing it of being a "terrorist" organisation that puts the lives of...

The northern city of Mosul has been the centre ground for the battle against Daesh since October 2016

A US judge heard arguments on Wednesday to halt the deportations of around 100 Iraqis arrested by immigration authorities in the Detroit area because many belong to minorities and...

The United States hopes Arab countries involved in a diplomatic split with Qatar will soon present Doha a list of "reasonable and actionable" demands to move the crisis toward...

A NATO F-16 fighter jet tried to approach the plane of the Russian Defence Minister, Sergey Shoygu, over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, Russian news agency Interfax reported....

Tunisia was elected as a member of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances for a period of four years yesterday. Elections were held in New York within the...

The government of Jordan officially accepted the transfer of the United Nations envoy to Yemen's office from the United States, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The transfer comes...

Human Rights Watch said it had received more than 1,750 complaints from Gulf citizens who had been affected by the severing of diplomatic ties and blockade on Qatar. During...

The UN Security Council has adopted a Presidential Statement calling on "all parties to the conflict to engage constructively and in good faith to overcome obstacles and...

The increasing contact between Israeli armed forces and militants fighting in Syria has become a cause for concern for the United Nations, a recent report by the organisation suggests....

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of a former Lebanese culture minister as the new UN envoy to Libya, diplomats said, ending an unusually contentious...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Egyptian authorities to respect the rights of the former president, Mohamed Morsi, who has been held in a prison following his...

A cholera epidemic has killed some 1,146 people in war-torn Yemen since late April, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a statement released yesterday, WHO's Yemen office...

The Palestinian Authority is increasing its control on the media and quashing freedom of speech and expression in the occupied territories, officials at the 35th session of the UN...

Yemen's minister of local administration and head of the official High Aid Committee has revealed that the Houthi rebels and their allies from forces loyal to ousted President Ali...

A 19-year-old Syrian refugee has become the first official with refugee status to become an Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). Muzoon Almellehan has been appointed as...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is currently organising efforts to rescue around 200 mainly Somali and Ethiopian migrants it believes have been kidnapped and held and tortured in...

The president of Sudan's National Umma Party, the most prominent opposition group in the country, called on Saturday for the formation of "a national government of technocrats" that is...

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive...

The European Union may send a new security mission to help stabilise Iraq after the expected recapture of Mosul from Daesh, diplomats said, cautioning that plans were at an...

A staff worker for the Syrian Arab Red Crescent relief organisation was wounded in an attack on a humanitarian convoy near Damascus, the International Committee for the Red Cross...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was set to name a former Lebanese culture minister as new UN envoy to Libya, ending an unusually contentious four-month search that followed US...

Staff working in South Sudan's health centres and schools have been forcibly recruited by armed groups, causing facilities to close, the United Nations said, as it struggles to provide...

With a record-breaking 26.5 million people going hungry in the Horn of Africa, development banks are increasing their humanitarian funding to fill a gap left by traditional donors, a...